NEWS BULLETIN
May-Jun 2024
Conferences of Interest
IDRiM 2024 Conference(28-30 August 2024; Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)

IDRiM 2024 conference is organized by National Unit for Disaster Risk Management(UNGRD) in Cartagena, Colombia. This year’s theme, ‘Disaster Resilient Communities
for Life’, which mirrors the national government’s vision government's vision,"Colombia, the world power of life". The conference invites researchers andpractitioners to discuss integrated disaster prevention, mitigation, emergency response, and recovery, whilst
encouraging new perspectives beyond traditional risk management concepts to address systemic and complex risks.
Registration is open now, with early bird open until 15th July 2024. For more details, please visit the conference website.
https://idrim2024.com/

Meetings of Interest
17th IDRiM Café

(24 July 2024)

The next webinar of the IDRiM Café Talk Series, organized by the IDRiM Society, will be held on 24th July 2024
at 11:00am (UTC). The theme of the webinar is "Contribution of Social Media to Effective Disaster
Management: Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Indian Scenarios". This webinar will feature talks fromDan Chiribuca and Dr. Monika Meltzer (Romanian Perspective), and Kaniska Singh and Tanu Gupta (IndianPerspective). For more details about the webinar, please visit the café flyer.
https://idrim.org/?p=8421#tab-id-17

Publications of Interest
IFRC Annual Report 2023
The IFRC report highlights how the organization supported the local humanitarian efforts of 191 National
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 2023. It shows that the IFRC network collectively assisted over 200
million people in crisis situations. The report provides a detailed examination of the network's activities,
demonstrating not only how they responded to various disasters and crises throughout the year, but also
how they proactively worked to anticipate and mitigate these events. Additionally, the report emphasizes
the efforts made to prepare and inform National Societies and communities, ensuring they were equipped
to respond effectively.
https://www.ifrc.org/document/annual-report-2023

IDRiM Journal Latest Releases: Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2024
❖ Barriers to Learning From Crisis: A Neglected Aspect of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Tourism SMEs in Sri Lanka(K.K.N.B. Adikaram; S.H.A.K.N. Sheresha)❖ Effects of Desert Locust Plague on Disaster Management in the Subsistence Agriculture of Ethiopia: Do Ex Ante or
Ex Post Policy Measures Are More Appropriate in Agricultureal Risk Management? An Analytical Review (D.M.
Bekele)❖ Cyclone Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal Odisha: A Sub-district Level Analysis (S. Das; S. Das)
https://www.idrimjournal.com

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